Hello all and welcome to 7th grade at TI! It has been so much fun getting to learn with our students over these past two weeks. We have started delving deeply into our identities and those of others, trying to understand what makes each of us… well, each of us. We have argued about the […]

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 16 Tishrei 5776 Hello Grade 3! We had a great time this past Sunday celebrating Sukkot in our classroom. We had a busy day practicing hebrew, learning about the משנה סוכה (Mishnah Sukkah) – a text from the Talmud, visiting the TI sukkah with Rabbi Jacobson and Rabbi Zecher, and finally building our […]

Today, 5th grade visited the sukkah and took turns shaking the lulav and etrog. We learned how sukkot customs reinforce social justice values. The sukkah is an open structure to ensure guests are always welcome. It is customary on sukkot to invite biblical heroes (ushpizin) into our sukkah to teach us the importance of hospitality. […]

What is social justice? What makes a hero? How do injustices (such as homelessness, racism, and gender inequality) relate to my life? 5th grade is discussing these thought-provoking questions and exploring how social justice applies to Judaism and the Torah. By closely analyzing the texts Isaiah 2:1-4 and Proverbs 31:1-9, we are beginning to think […]

We’ve had an exciting week in Class 3B at Temple Israel! On Sunday and Thursday, we learned about Yom Kippur through reading The Hardest Word: A Yom Kippur Story by Jacqueline Jules, discussed the way in which we read stories to prepare for reading the book of Genesis this semester, and reviewed our Hebrew from […]

Why, no! It’s just the sixth grade at Temple Israel! Like the Messiah, our sixth grade class is building models of the second temple in Jerusalem. First, we dealt with the question of what life would be like if there was only one temple? Then, we discussed actual second temple Judaism and its main form […]

Friday, September 25, 2015 12 Tishrei 5776 Hello 3A! We are off to a great start as a class. Yesterday, we discussed the terms ‘story’ and ‘myth.’ Individually, we all came up with our own definitions and then we came together as a class to develop a better understanding of these terms. We learned that […]

After some Hebrew reading review, we looked more closely at this google presentation with images and a walk-through of the Second Temple during the time of Herod – the first century A.D. We discussed what happened there – sacrifices, not prayer. We found the kadosh kedoshim (holy of holies) where only the kohen gadol (high […]

Hi there class 2B community, What a wonderful first week of class! We started out with an exciting school-wide event where we decided on our mascot, the goat. We like goats because they’re intelligent and strong. In class, we discussed the value of community and the ways in which we can make our own […]

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